Excerpt: By cutting aid for permanent housing by two-thirds next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support for most of the people the Continuum places in such housing nationwide, beginning as soon as January. All are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older. The document does not explain how they would find housing.

Excerpt: A little-noticed provision tucked into the federal spending bill signed by President Trump could upend a booming industry — by banning many THC-infused products, like gummies, drinks, topical pain relief and vapes, now found everywhere from gas stations to wellness shops.

Trump & the Republicans are itching for war, and I think they’ll do it. Why wouldn’t they? Common sense and human decency are moot, and little people’s lives (Venezuelan or American) don’t matter to Republicans. Seems entirely possible that the USA will start bombing Venezuela, and maybe Colombia and Mexico too.

Excerpt: The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the state case, didn’t want him to have a laptop. Federal prosecutors didn’t take a position, and their spokesperson declined to comment Thursday.

“Although the federal court has previously issued a laptop order, there is a lengthy and laborious process that must be completed before Mr. Mangione receives the laptop,” defense lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo wrote.

To comply with jail regulations, she said, the laptop had to be sent to an outside technology vendor to disable its connections to the internet, printers and wireless networks — a process that took “many weeks to complete.”

Me again: Issuing an unconnected laptop does not take “many weeks.” Laptops without internet access exist, and are probably in common use by people in jail while awaiting trial. Diddy, for example, stayed at the same facility Luigi’s now at, and was issued a laptop.

Excerpt: Within hours of the online speculation, the administration replaced copies of the pardons with new ones that did not feature identical signatures. It insisted Trump, who mercilessly mocked his predecessor’s use of an autopen, had originally signed all the Nov. 7 pardons himself and blamed “technical” and staffing issues for the error, which has no bearing on the validity of the clemency actions.

Me again: Trump is trying to invalidate Biden’s pardons because Biden used an autopen, same as Trump uses, and used by every president since Thomas Jefferson.

Me, I don’t care about a pervert’s politics, and I’d prefer investigations based on facts. But Trump & the Republicans only care if the pervs are Democrats. That’s all their ‘investigations’ are about — that and keeping the Epstein files out of sight.

Trump hasn’t ‘merely’ pardoned people for attempting to overthrow democracy on 1/6/2021. He’s happy to pardon his supporters for whatever crimes they commit.

Excerpt: The US is planning for the long-term division of Gaza into a “green zone” under Israeli and international military control, where reconstruction would start, and a “red zone” to be left in ruins.

Just fuckin’ yay. Give me someone who believes in something — Katie Wilson — not another politician who believes only in money & power.

‘I’m not buying Starbucks and you shouldn’t either.’ Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson joins striking baristas

ANYTHING GOES